March 05, 2018
Full Metal Podcast: Show Me the Money
This week on Full Metal Podcast, the CNAS defense team talks all things budget. First, the team discusses details of the newly released President's budget for fiscal year 2019, followed by a conversation with two special guests: Mike McCord, former DoD Comptroller, and Jamie Morin, former Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation.
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
When Defense Becomes Destruction: Austria-Hungary’s Mistake and Ukraine’s RiskThis article was originally posted on War on the Rocks. The southeastern Polish city of Przemyśl, with its elegant 19th century Habsburg-era train station, remains one of the ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Ukraine’s Catch-22 MomentThis article was originally published in the Financial Times. In Joseph Heller’s wartime classic, Catch-22, the protagonist Yossarian seeks out the US army surgeon Doc Daneeka...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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CNAS Insights | Budgetary Own Goals Undermine “Speed and Volume”
On November 7, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth laid out a plan to overhaul the Department of Defense’s (DOD’s) acquisition system. Placing an emphasis on delivering new capa...
By Philip Sheers, Carlton Haelig & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Drones: Who Is Making the New Weapons of War?
From Ukraine and Russia to Gaza and Sudan, drones have become a key weapon of war. Which companies are making them, and profiting from this rapidly expanding but controversial...
By Stacie Pettyjohn